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((( ` Thanks, Barb. Yep, I'm fast, ` ) efficient and productive. (^ ) ) That's why I'm in such great ~-( ) demand. Hehe! '((,,,))) ,-' ` "Getting something useful ( , done" is all well and good. `-.-'`-.-'- But the point you seem to =()=: ,' aa have missed is that if you're doing it while in the employ of a big company (like DEC or Mikro$loth, for example), you're still nothing more than a paid whore. You're given money for doing what someone else tells you to do.

You're totally disposable, at the whim of some idiot in a suit.

And six months or two years down the road, all the "something useful" you did is long forgotten, and not worth a bean.

"Something useful" -- plus $2.59 -- might get you a cup of latte at Starbuck's, if you're lucky.

But by all means, do your job and take the money like a good little whore, if that's what you want to do. Just don't delude yourself into thinking that what you're doing is somehow significant, important or fulfilling. It ain't.

If you BELIEVE it is, that belief will merely keep you in the corporate pen, along with all the other sheep.

Now...profitably day-trading stocks while sitting at your computer in your pajamas? *THAT'S* fulfilling.

"Credibility," in your context, simply means being deemed 'acceptable' by some cadre of empty-suited toadies. And who gives a rat's fuzzy patoot about THAT? Not me. Hehehe!